Removing item from Recyclerview reappears when switching tabs?

Question

I have a Recyclerview in a fragment and i would like to add the option to delete a playlist that has been added to MediaStore.Audio.Playlists.

Method that creates the Recyclerview and gets called in onCreateView()

private void initRecyclerView(){
    items = Main.songs.getPlaylistNames();
    if ((items != null) && (! items.isEmpty())) {
        adapter = new Adapter(getActivity(), items);
        LinearLayoutManager linearLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(getActivity());
        recyclerViewPlaylist.setLayoutManager(linearLayoutManager);
        recyclerViewPlaylist.setHasFixedSize(true);
        recyclerViewPlaylist.setAdapter(adapter);
        Log.i(TAG, "Playlist found in list!" + items.size());

        recyclerViewPlaylist.addOnItemTouchListener(new OnItemClickListeners(getActivity(), recyclerViewPlaylist, new OnItemClickListeners.OnItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemClick(View view, int position) {
                Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "You Clicked position: " + position + " " + items.get(position) , Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                if (! Main.songs.isInitialized()){
                    return;
                }
                String selectedPlaylist = items.get(position);

                Main.musicList = Main.songs.getSongsByPlaylist(selectedPlaylist);

                Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity(), ListSongsActivity.class);
                intent.putExtra("title", selectedPlaylist);
                startActivity(intent);
            }
            @Override
            public void onLongClick(View view, int position) {
                currentIndex = position;
                drawerLayout5.openDrawer(Gravity.END);
            }
        }));
    }else{
        Log.i(TAG, "No playlist found in list!");
    }

NavigationView with an option menu, for now i only implemented a remove option.

 mNavigationView5.setNavigationItemSelectedListener(new NavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(@NonNull final MenuItem item) {
            switch (item.getItemId()){
                case R.id.ic_edit:
                    break;
                case R.id.ic_info:
                    break;
                case R.id.ic_remove:
                    final Dialog dialog;
                    dialog = new Dialog(getActivity());
                    dialog.setContentView(R.layout.custom_dialog);
                    dialog.getWindow().setLayout(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
                    dialog.getWindow().setBackgroundDrawableResource(android.R.color.transparent);
                    ImageButton imageButtonCheck = dialog.findViewById(R.id.checkBtn);
                    ImageButton imageButtonClose = dialog.findViewById(R.id.closeBtn);
                    TextView textView            = dialog.findViewById(R.id.dialogTitle);

                    String name = items.get(currentIndex);
                    String text = getString(R.string.delete_warning, name);
                    textView.setText(text);

                    imageButtonCheck.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                        @Override
                        public void onClick(View v) {
                            try {
                                Main.songs.removePlaylist(getActivity(), items.get(currentIndex));
                                items = Main.songs.getPlaylistNames();
                                adapter.removeAt(currentIndex);
                            }catch (Exception e){
                                Log.e(TAG, "Exception caught when removing selected playlist!" + e.toString());
                            }
                        }
                    });

                    imageButtonClose.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                        @Override
                        public void onClick(View v) {
                            dialog.cancel();
                        }
                    });
                    dialog.show();
                    break;
            }
            return false;
        }
    });

Remove method in my Adapter class

public void removeAt(int position) {
    list.remove(position);
    notifyItemRemoved(position);
}

Now i for sure now that Main.songs.removePlaylist(getActivity(),items.get(currentIndex));is not the problem because when i remove a playlist, close the app and then restart it, it is removed.

But my problem is that when my app is running and i switch tabs in my tabbed activity with ViewPager the removed Playlist reappears.

I think my problem has something to do with preloaded tabs, i noticed that in a ViewPager all tabs get preloaded.

ps. items is a private ArrayList items;